22/05/2025
Back in either July or August 2022 I got to shoot with the amazing and did a post about my insecurities. I think it’s an important messages so I feel that it needs to be reposted.
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Yes I know that it’ll make me vulnerable but I want people to see the real unedited version of me.
In today’s media we are trapped into believing that a perfect body is fair skin, slim waist and no fat at all. However all of these beauty standards are unrealistic. Sadly they cause our generation to feel not good enough and insecure about our selves.
In this image l’ve made some of my biggest insecurities a more noticeable such as the stretch marks on the back of my legs, the cellulite on my thighs and the thing that I’m most insecure about my skin colour.
In many of my photos I look lighter than I am due to racism l’ve received and how society’s expectation of “pretty” is white. Not many people know this but I have often tried
“scrubbing the black out” of my skin and trying to bleach my skin just so I can fit in.
I can’t always hide behind filters. None of us can. We need to embrace our insecurities since if everyone was society’s vision of
“perfect” we’d all be the same and that would be boring.
It doesn’t matter if you black, white or mixed, slim or chubby, we’re all humans and no one should be forced to feel like they must change themselves to fit into society.
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